The True Story of Hannibal.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 15424 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 208 p., 9 maps, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2011 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251040110 |
"Delenda est Carthago! We must destroy Carthage!" Cato the Elder insisted in the middle of the Roman Senate. In 218 BC, Hannibal, 60,000 men and 40 elephants went up Spain, crossed the Pyrenees, entered Gaul and crossed the Alps to invade Italy. A fine strategist, the Carthaginian defeated the Romans at Trasimene and especially at Cannae, one of the greatest confrontations of Antiquity, where 70,000 legionaries, including the two consuls of the year and those of the previous one, were killed. It was the greatest defeat in Roman history. The cities of central and southern Italy and Sicily allied with the Carthaginians. The Republic was in danger. From the year 210, the tide turned and the Romans, led by Fabius Maximus the Cunctator, regained the advantage. In 204, led by Scipio Africanus, they attacked Carthage. Hannibal was urgently recalled from Italy to confront the Romans at Zama. He was finally defeated. Peace was signed. Half a century later, Scipio Aemilianus, Africanus's grandson, found a pretext to raze the city. Thus, the greatest threat to the Roman Republic disappeared. Who was this cunning, courageous, and pugnacious Hannibal, a keen connoisseur of Roman institutions who made Rome tremble? Polybius, Livy, and Cornelius Nepos tell us.
"Delenda est Carthago! We must destroy Carthage!" Cato the Elder insisted in the middle of the Roman Senate. In 218 BC, Hannibal, 60,000 men and 40 elephants went up Spain, crossed the Pyrenees, entered Gaul and crossed the Alps to invade Italy. A fine strategist, the Carthaginian defeated the Romans at Trasimene and especially at Cannae, one of the greatest confrontations of Antiquity, where 70,000 legionaries, including the two consuls of the year and those of the previous one, were killed. It was the greatest defeat in Roman history. The cities of central and southern Italy and Sicily allied with the Carthaginians. The Republic was in danger. From the year 210, the tide turned and the Romans, led by Fabius Maximus the Cunctator, regained the advantage. In 204, led by Scipio Africanus, they attacked Carthage. Hannibal was urgently recalled from Italy to confront the Romans at Zama. He was finally defeated. Peace was signed. Half a century later, Scipio Aemilianus, Africanus's grandson, found a pretext to raze the city. Thus, the greatest threat to the Roman Republic disappeared. Who was this cunning, courageous, and pugnacious Hannibal, a keen connoisseur of Roman institutions who made Rome tremble? Polybius, Livy, and Cornelius Nepos tell us.